EDWIN’s Leadership and Restaurant Institute is a local nonprofit that takes formerly incarcerated adults and trains them in the skills they need to succeed in the culinary and hospitality industries, all while offering the finest in French dining. Students not only obtain world-class culinary skills, but a support network that ensures their long-term success with free housing, legal services, basic medical care, clothes, job coaching and literacy programs, just to name a few. This amazing local program was recently featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary short.